Thursday, October 23, 2008

The Lost Colony

Title: The Lost Colony
Author: Eoin Colfer
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Reviewer: George

This book is part of the Artemis Fowl series. Artemis is an Irish child, a genius, and a criminal mastermind. He is in the unique position of being a human who knows about secret fairies who live underground and about demons who live on the island of Limbo which does exist within time. Young Artemis travels out of time to the island of Limbo to help the fairies diffuse a bomb. Most of the story deals with what happens before he gets to Limbo. After Artemis has diffused the bomb, he has to travel back to Earth. When he gets back to Earth, time is three years later but Artemis hasn’t aged at all.

I would recommend this book to anybody who likes science fiction or fantasy novels. I would also recommend this to anyone who likes to solve codes because on the bottom of every page there are “Gnomish symbols” that can be decoded. This is a very exciting, puzzling story. I suggest you start with the first book in the series Artemis Fowl because it is hard to follow the plot of each book unless you read them in order.

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